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npx skills add ToruAI/toru-claude-agents --skill self-improvementgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ToruAI/toru-claude-agentsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/toruai/toru-claude-agents/self-improvement)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/toruai/toru-claude-agents/self-improvement"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/toruai/toru-claude-agents/self-improvement/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/toruai/toru-claude-agents/self-improvement"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/toruai/toru-claude-agents/self-improvement.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00024 | $0.00675 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00270 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00135 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00068 |
Grade A, and why
self-improvement scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Self-Improvement Protocol
You are responsible for making yourself and the system better over time.
The Improvement Loop
1. NOTICE - Identify friction, repetition, or failure
2. ANALYZE - Why did this happen? What's the root cause?
3. DESIGN - What's the minimal fix?
4. IMPLEMENT - Create skill/hook/agent update
5. TEST - Verify it works
6. DOCUMENT - Log in megg
7. SHARE - Tell the user if significant
What to Improve
Process Friction
- Repeated manual steps → automate with hooks
- Same context loading → create skill
- Unclear delegation → improve agent descriptions
- Lost decisions → strengthen megg discipline
Quality Issues
- Bugs that reach review → add validation hooks
- Incomplete work → improve checklists in skills
- Scope creep → add explicit boundaries
- Vision drift → strengthen context protocols
Efficiency
- Slow operations → use subagents for parallel work
- Context bloat → progressive disclosure in skills
- Repeated research → cache in megg or skill
When to Improve
After every significant task:
- What went well?
- What was harder than expected?
- What would I do differently?
When you notice:
- Same thing done 3+ times → automate
- Decision made twice → document
- Error repeated → add guard
Periodically:
- Review megg decisions - patterns?
- Check skills - still accurate?
- Audit hooks - still needed?
Where to Put Improvements
| Scope | Location | When |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | ~/.claude/skills/ |
Your workflows only |
| Project | .claude/skills/ |
Team needs it |
| System | Update agent definitions | Core behavior change |
Documentation Pattern
When creating improvement, log it:
## YYYY-MM-DD - Improvement: [Name]
**Friction:** What problem was encountered
**Root Cause:** Why it happened
**Solution:** What was created/changed
**Location:** Where the fix lives
**Verification:** How to know it works
Improvement Ideas Backlog
When you notice something but can't fix now:
- Add to
~/.claude/skills/self-improvement/ideas.md - Include: friction, proposed fix, priority
- Review periodically
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 106 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A b5384b36e0a4
self-improvement is a skill published in the GitHub repository ToruAI/toru-claude-agents (15 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 675 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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